<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Aaron Whitehouse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@whitehouse.org.nz">lists@whitehouse.org.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Steven Ellis wrote:<br>
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> I have the details of how series link works on myfreeview|HD and it<br>
> would require a number of extensions to the existing MHEG stack.<br>
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</div>Interesting. Presumably people would rather use series link through the<br>
existing scheduling interfaces, rather than the F12 interface, so<br>
something may need to change there anyway. I guess that means that it is<br>
different to the UK BBC's "series link", which (apparently) is already<br>
in MythTV.<br></blockquote><div><br>I doubt there will ever be integration between the MHEG proram guide and MythTV scheduling (i.e. being able to schedule things from the MHEG program guide). As you say, people would rather use the Myth interface so I think we're all just talking about getting whatever MHEG-only data there is into Myth. I'm not exactly sure what "series link" means in terms of data (hopefully Steven Eillis will clarify/correct me where required), but I guess it just means an id number against each program that represents the "series". It could give us some certainty in the face of title screwups, but then if we don't trust Freeview to get the title right in the data then I'm not sure we can trust them to get the series id right either. How it's used could affect it's value as well, for example is it only for a particular season or for all seasons of a particular show? If it's specific to a season then it's pretty useless IMHO. Similarly, will they be careful to distinguish between different programs with the same/similar names (e.g. Life on Mars UK vs US, Who want's to be a Millionaire?). Again, if they don't then it's no better than the titles we have now.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div></div>